You don’t need me to tell you that 2020 has been an interesting, devastating, brilliant, disastrous, life-changing kind of year. Where you live and your experience of the pandemic will have shaped your view of the year.
I want to take a moment to comment here that I have lived the year in a bubble. When the virus first reared its head in February, we had a handful of cases in my town. We got shut down, then intrastate borders were imposed and also interstate borders imposed. Right now there is free movement and no cases of COVID in Western Australian (maybe a few coming in from overseas but no community transmission). We can move freely about the state of WA but we can’t visit other parts of Australia.
My family are on the East Coast and this is the longest I have ever gone without seeing them. I have had a few days of intense homesickness; lying on the couch sobbing kind of homesickness (despite that I haven’t lived near them for about 25 years!) But I am painfully aware that, so far I am extremely fortunate to not really be touched by the pandemic. Other than working at home for a couple of months with the shops shut, it’s pretty much been business as usual here since May.
In many ways, this has been a mixed year for me; a bumpy road of self-reflection and personal growth with some intense frustration thrown in there. It has been a time to think about what is important to me and to make the changes I have been “meaning” to make for a long time.
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